Two of these birds are native species (the mourning dove and the band-tailed pigeon) while the other two (rock pigeon and Eurasian collared-dove) are striking examples of birds that have thrived ...

Black tips on the greater coverts and secondaries form bold black bars on inner wing, and there is a broad black terminal band on the tail ... and feet gray. The rock pigeon was introduced ...

Though most of this list focuses on the rock pigeon, there are 308 living species ... The extinct dodo belonged to this group as well. Flightless and (somewhat) docile, dodos once inhabited ...

Larger, with a longer tail than a rock pigeon; blue-gray on the upper parts with contrasting blackish gray flight feathers; a blackish gray tail with a broad, pale gray terminal band. Paler-gray ...

The rock pigeon is a single species (Columba livia) with 350 different breeds with different sizes, shapes, colors, color patterns, beaks, bone structure, vocalizations and arrangements of ...

Researchers have found the rock dove, also known as the rock pigeon, living on islands off the coast of the British Isles. An Oxford University team used DNA tests to find the creatures ...